Monthly Archives May 12, 2018

Artsy - Guests at the recurring Dada salon of the modern art collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg might have found themselves doing a double-take as they ambled through the couple’s Manhattan apartment on We...

Artsy - What does a creative brain look like? Over the past two decades, through neuroimaging—the process through which scientists make scans of the human brain—we’ve begun to find out. Researchers have discov...

The Art Newspaper - The Americans sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the British sell arms to Saudi Arabia, but only the French sell arms and culture to Saudi Arabia. How do they manage it in a part of the world tha...

Modern Magazine - Across the street from two art museums in Miami’s architecturally flamboyant Design District, the city’s latest and arguably weirdest parking garage is almost complete. And that’s saying a lot...

ARTNEWS - Last night in a jam-packed salesroom at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, a sale of 19th- and 20th-century art from the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller brought $646.1 m...

The New York Times - The great cathedral of Mexico City is a visual opera of light, movement and sacred history. And at its center is a true coup de théâtre: the carved and painted “Retablo de los Reyes” — “Al...

Smithsonian Magazine - In 1971, at the height of the Cold War, renowned U.S. and Soviet scientists gathered at Armenia’s Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) to ponder what contact with alien life would me...

Artsy - Art forgeries are surprisingly common, to the point that scandals hit the news regularly. No one is safe from deception—forgers can be skilled enough to dupe experts at some of the world’s most prestigi...

Artsy - - The collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller became the most expensive estate in history on Tuesday night, after an evening sale of 44 works by European masters at Christie’s New York totalled $646 m...